If you’re familiar with the Hawaiian lūʻau plate — laden with dishes like kalua pork, huli huli chicken, tuna poke, and macaroni salad — you’ve probably seen poi. Maybe you tried it and thought it ...

Waikiki is returning to its roots. One Honolulu hotel garden every month harvests a small patch of taro, a vegetable once ubiquitous along the area’s marshes and one critical to the islands’ most ...

People always seem surprised to find that taro, the root vegetable from which the gluey Hawaiian porridge poi is made, isn’t only Polynesian. In ancient times it was cultivated throughout the Old ...

Farmers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai say their state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of the traditional Hawaiian diet, after record-breaking rains flooded their fields. The ...

Poi is made from cooked and pounded taro root, but it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. Taro is a starchy root vegetable with a natural defense built in. If the root isn’t cooked for long enough, ...

With only about 1,000 full-blooded Hawaiians left in the world, preserving native island culture is a huge challenge. One way to do this: teach... There are only about 1,000 people of pure Hawaiian ...

Kauai farmers say the state should brace for a shortage of taro after record-breaking rain flooded their fields. The deluge hit the north shore community of Hanalei particularly hard. The region grows ...

Farmers on Kauai say the state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of the traditional Hawaiian diet, after record-breaking rains flooded their fields. The deluge hit the north shore ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A super-sized taro root has been harvested on Hawaii's Big Island. The 50-pound corm, which is the root of a taro plant, was grown on Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in Hawaii Island’s ...

With only about 1,000 full-blooded Hawaiians left in the world, preserving native island culture is a huge challenge. One way to do this: teach... Poi: Hawaii's Recipe For Revitalizing Island Culture ...